Run Your Entire Awards
From One Intelligent Platform
Dubai Business Award gives you a complete 360° awards management solution: nominations, judging, email campaigns, ceremony night and beyond. Save weeks of effort, cut costs, and deliver an award ceremony your nominees will never forget.
Organising awards is harder than it should be
Most award organisers are stitching together spreadsheets, email tools, WhatsApp groups and last-minute panic. It costs time, money and credibility, and it doesn't have to.
Drowning in spreadsheets
Manually tracking hundreds of nominations across tabs, losing data, missing deadlines. It takes days just to know where you stand.
Email chaos
Copy-pasting names into Mailchimp, chasing bounces manually, no idea who opened what or when. Every campaign feels like starting from scratch.
Judge co-ordination nightmares
Emailing PDFs back and forth, chasing scores via WhatsApp, trying to aggregate results manually the night before the ceremony.
Ceremony night anxiety
No centralised view of shortlists, finalists and winners. Every decision made under pressure, with no audit trail and no confidence.
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Dubai Business Award is a fully integrated awards management platform built by organisers who understand the pressure of running a successful ceremony. Every feature exists to give you back time, reduce cost and elevate the experience for your nominees, judges and guests.
360°
end-to-end management
from first nomination to winners' announcement
1
platform, everything included
no patchwork of tools, spreadsheets or agencies needed
Six pillars of a world-class ceremony
Nomination Management
Never miss an entry again
- Custom nomination forms per event
- Multi-category entries in one flow
- View, edit and flag nominations
- Shortlist, semi-finalist and finalist pipeline
- Supporting document upload
Email Campaign Engine
Send smarter, not harder
- Drag-and-drop template builder
- Automated reminder flows
- Real-time open / click / bounce tracking
- CSV contact import with custom fields
- Multi-mailbox SMTP / Resend / Mailgun
Judging Workflow
Fair, transparent, effortless
- Approve or reject judge applications
- Allocate judges to specific categories
- Assign applicants to judges in bulk
- Track scoring progress per category
- Average score ranking for decisions
Award Night Command Centre
Ceremony night, in full control
- Live shortlist / finalist / winner views
- Action centre per applicant (status, notes, comms)
- Certificate generation
- Schedule booking & co-ordination
- Full comment and email trail per applicant
Event & Category Studio
Build your ceremony your way
- Unlimited award categories per event
- CSV bulk import of categories
- Theme grouping with custom icons & logos
- Multi-site category sharing
- Clone events year-over-year instantly
Analytics & Insights
Data that drives better decisions
- Dashboard: registrations & nominations at a glance
- Campaign stats: per-recipient engagement
- Judge progress tracking
- Applicant pipeline visualisation
- Export data for stakeholder reporting
From setup to standing ovation in three steps
01
Set up your ceremony in minutes
Create your event, build your award categories, import contacts, and configure your nomination form. What used to take weeks takes an afternoon.
02
Run campaigns that convert
Launch targeted email campaigns to your contacts, track every open and click, automate reminders, and watch nominations roll in, without lifting a finger after setup.
03
Deliver a flawless ceremony
Allocate judges, collect scores, shortlist finalists, and walk into ceremony night with a complete, live view of every applicant and every decision.
The platform that thinks ahead for you
Intelligent automation removes the repetitive work so you can focus on what matters: creating a ceremony experience that inspires, celebrates and connects.
Smart Contact Segmentation
AI-assisted filtering surfaces the right contacts for every campaign: by industry, status, engagement history and custom fields.
Judging Score Intelligence
Automatic average score calculation ranks applicants objectively, removing bias and giving your judging panel a clear, data-backed view.
Applicant Communication Hub
Every email, comment, status change and document per applicant lives in one thread, your team always knows the full picture.
Multi-Site Architecture
Run multiple award ceremonies from one account. Share categories, themes and contacts across brands without duplicating effort.
Your nominees worked hard to deserve recognition. They deserve an organiser whose platform works just as hard.
Dubai Business Award: Built for Organisers Who Care
Everything included. Nothing extra to buy.
Before, during, after and beyond.
Before
Set it up and open entries.
During
Judge fairly, at scale.
After
Deliver the night.
Beyond
Run it again, or run more.
What organisers ask us
What does the platform cover?+
Nominations, email campaigns, judging, the award night command centre, categories and analytics: the whole run of an awards programme, as set out above.
Can we bring our existing categories and contacts?+
Categories can be imported in bulk from CSV, and contacts can be imported with custom fields for campaigns.
Can we run more than one awards programme?+
Yes. Categories can be shared across sites and events can be cloned year over year.
How much does it cost, and how long does set-up take?+
That depends on your awards. The team talks it through with you on a walkthrough, so nothing is assumed.
Is judging independent?+
Judges are allocated to categories and score the entries allocated to them; results are ranked by average score. You decide the shortlist from those results.
What happens after we get in touch?+
The team arranges a walkthrough built around your awards, then you decide whether it fits.
Exploring?
Tell us about your awards
A few details and the team will come back to you. Ready to see it? Request a walkthrough instead.
Which route is right for me?
Running awards, or another way in?
Know someone who runs awards?
An association, a chamber, a publisher, an events team. Send them this page.
Let's build your next ceremony together
Join a growing community of award organisers who've replaced the chaos with clarity. Book a free demo and see the full platform in action, no commitment required.
No setup fees. No long contracts. Onboarding support included.